Re: [SLE] SuSE 10.1 and ATI Mobility Radeon X1400

greminn@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hi There,

Im a first time SuSE user (long time linux 'user') and have installed
10.1 on my Toshiba Tecra A6, which has a Mobility Radeon X1400 card. I
have the drivers installed and working as expected... but am having
some trouble getting multiple monitors setup.

Is there any one who has this setup and working correctly, or is this
not the place to discuss?

I am trying to get it running so that i have the external LCD monitor
running at 1280x1024 and the main laptop monitor off... I just cant
seem to get this working with any tools that are available (ATI or
otherwise).

Thanks for any response in advance!

Simon

Hi Simon,

It is unclear to me .. are you using the ATI drivers or the stock Xorg
drivers? You mentioned ATI tools so I'm thinking that you probably
installed the ATI drivers. I have the v5200 and use the 8.25.18 ATI
driver with success. Are you sure that the X1400 is supported by the
ATI drivers?

(btw: Does anyone else find the ATI support site for linux confusing?
Where is there a chart on that site which says which driver to download
for which card? For example is an X1400 (which begins with "X1") part
of the "FireGL X3/X2/*X1*/Z1/T2 Series" ? If you go to the "What ATI
graphics cards can use this driver?" part of the FAQ do you get an
answer? No. You get "currently supports Radeon 8500 and later AGP".
Is an X1400 *later* than an 8500? Ugh).

Anyway .. enough complaining. :) I have used both methods shown by the
links below to install the ATI drivers and had success each time on this
Thinkpad T60p with the v5200. I don't know about an X1400 however.
Here are the links:
http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT7527984757.html
http://linux.wordpress.com/2006/05/12/suse-101-ati-drivers-installation/

(The second one is written up with the older 8.24.8 drivers .. still
applies if you use the newer drivers)

If you are not using the ATI drivers then you may have hit a problem
with the xorg radeon driver. During the beta cycle there was
information indicating that you need to replace the "Driver" section in
the xorg.conf with "radeon10b" due to problems with the older driver.
If you do that and then go into yast you can configure Xinerama mode and
it should work.

- Bruce



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